Dental Care For Children

Introduction

One of a truth about tooth is getting a treatment at the most earlier is the better benefit. Although the primary teeth is going to fall out but they play significant roles:

1)To keep a primary teeth or baby ‘s teeth in place is important
because they help guide proper eruption of permanent teeth.
2) Avoid high bacteria counts from occurring that can create possible lifetime problems.
3) Provide formation of the shape of the mouth
4) They permit normal speech development

First dental visit

The first dental visit for kids is important for both children and parents. Our Pedodontic dentist will provide full dental examination including individual dental advice based on each child‘s dental health, food taking diet, habit and etc.

Our procedures would be:

1) Dietary counseling : For this process, pediatric dentist will interview a child about daily diet in order to evaluate the cause of dental caries and give advice for preventive care.

2) Psychological management by tell-show-do method.

Pediatric dentist will use simple words to make your child understand the procedures of dental treatment, and make him or her feel comfortable. Particularly, if a child has previous bad dental experience, it may take 1-2 more visits for the child to be less fearful.

3) X-ray examination. If it is needed, in tight contact posterior teeth, pediatric dentist may advise x-ray to find out hidden dental caries.

We try to avoid the amount of x-ray radiation as much as possible. However, dental x-ray radiation, especially in case of digital x-ray system, provides very minimal risk to overall health. If the hidden dental caries are not detected properly, it could cause a toothache later which requires more extensive dental procedure.

Toothache

If the cavities does not expose the dental pulp, simple filling could be done but children have to be co-operative

2) Pulpotomy or Pulpectomy

In case that dental caries are exposed to dental pulp, pulpotomy or Pulpectomy is necessary. There are criteria of each treatment depending on severity. After this pulp treatment, stainless steel crown is advised for final restoration in most cases.

3) Extraction. If the decay is too extensive and possibly involves permanent tooth bud underneath, extraction might as well be a choice. In case that the baby tooth has been removed 6-12 months before the permanent tooth is erupted, space maintainer is recommended in order to preserve a space for permanent teeth.

Preventive care

One of Truth about tooth is that we should be able to maintain dental care at home since childhood. At Truth dental clinic, we are concerned about this the most.

Several skeletal and dental malocclusion can be detected at the early stage by regular periodic recall from paediatric specialist and team which give advance treatment planning or proper timeline to refer to orthodontic treatment or any adjunctive treatment.